Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:31:35 02/24/00
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On February 25, 2000 at 00:12:21, Pete Galati wrote: [snip] >I like the idea especially of a tournament of _only_ free download programs in >the tournament. Any ideas on how the matched machines would be selected (which >machine?) harder to do than it seems probably?? If we play 4 games per pair, then the machines do not matter. Let's call the machines A and B and programs 1 and 2. Then we have: (game 1) A with program 1 as white verses B with program 2 as black (game 2) A with program 1 as black verses B with program 2 as white (game 3) A with program 2 as white verses B with program 1 as black (game 4) A with program 2 as black verses B with program 1 as white If we played G/30, then one set would be done in 3 hours or less. I'd prefer 40/2, but I know nobody will go along with that. We could also have a blitz championship, since that could be run in a jiffy. At the same time, program 1 could play 3 on another machine pair, and 2 could play 3 on yet another, etc. In this way -- if we did everything right and had enough volunteers -- we could complete the entire tournament in 3 hours with hundreds of games played. But it would take a lot of volunteers. >The 3 Crowns is probably the most grey catagory, but I like your method of >promoting and demoting between catagories, but the problem I see with that is >that it's likely that the one program(s) would shift back & forth between >catagories with every tournament. I doubt if this would be a real problem, unless the others in its category were very highly superior and the ones below highly inferior. And also, it would assume that the author never tried to improve it. (or succeeded in improving more slowly than the others). >Did you have any thought about haw many >tournaments this tournament would contain? 4 high level tournaments which contain one sub-tournament for each round-robin pair which suggests a pair of machines for each pair. You could get by with less machines, but it would not be nearly so exciting. >You're probably right, TCB and Chop are questionably placed in the three Crown >area, maybe not, I think Bringer is very realistic there strength wise, about >the strength of Arasan probably. > >It sounds like a time consuming tournament, but has potential for involving >_many_ more programs. Depends on how many machines participate. I'd like to see it run on a quarterly basis. That way, it would not be too painful like running a contest once a month would be and also give someone bragging rights for 4 months in each of the winning categories. I also like the fact that there are a lot of winners.
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